1⁄48F2H-2 Banshee
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Some time ago I sent in a plea for kit manufacturers to produce a 1/48th. scale F2H-2 Banshee. Hasn't happened. We have nearly everything else from the Korean conflict and readers amongst us will recollect that when James Michener originally wrote his book 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri' The aircraft featured was in fact a Banshee, not a Panther.
Anyway, being tired of waiting I got to work on the old Testor's Hawk kit & which hit the market back in 1957 or thereabouts & consisted of about 20 pieces. You could see straight through the air intakes to the diagonally opposite exhausts. There was no cockpit, no nose wheel bay, the tip tanks were wrong as was the length of the fuselage; unless you were building one of the prototypes. The canopy was too short for the same reason, plus, it had raised panel & marking location lines everywhere!
Around 80 hours work produced the model as seen here. It has an extended fuselage, engine turbines & exhausts, dropped elevators, corrected trailing edges to inner wings, new windscreen & canopy, scratch built brass undercarriage, a nose wheel well, cockpit, new wheels, opened cannon muzzles, re-positioned tip tanks, a 'borrowed' ejection seat plus a full re-scribe job too.
Funny; not withstanding all the ultra hi-tech kits appearing on the market now; I've had more fun building this & others like it, than anything else!
Anyway, being tired of waiting I got to work on the old Testor's Hawk kit & which hit the market back in 1957 or thereabouts & consisted of about 20 pieces. You could see straight through the air intakes to the diagonally opposite exhausts. There was no cockpit, no nose wheel bay, the tip tanks were wrong as was the length of the fuselage; unless you were building one of the prototypes. The canopy was too short for the same reason, plus, it had raised panel & marking location lines everywhere!
Around 80 hours work produced the model as seen here. It has an extended fuselage, engine turbines & exhausts, dropped elevators, corrected trailing edges to inner wings, new windscreen & canopy, scratch built brass undercarriage, a nose wheel well, cockpit, new wheels, opened cannon muzzles, re-positioned tip tanks, a 'borrowed' ejection seat plus a full re-scribe job too.
Funny; not withstanding all the ultra hi-tech kits appearing on the market now; I've had more fun building this & others like it, than anything else!
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Wow! Talk about taking a sow's ear and making a silk purse! Words fail me. Super build and a job VERY well done. Good show, Tony. All the best.
Happy Gluing, JT
SEP 22, 2012 - 05:55 AM
Hi,
Very nice and inspiring! Thank you for sharing this with us!
All the best,
Entoni
SEP 23, 2012 - 11:06 PM
Hi Tony,
Outstanding! This demonstrates what a little (OK, a lot!) TLC can do with an old model.
Hope to see more of your work!
SEP 25, 2012 - 03:30 PM
Good Job. I finished the old ('72?) 1/72 MPC Banshee a few months ago. The old kits do have their appeal.
SEP 26, 2012 - 10:27 AM
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